SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Sudan Tribune – Will uprising in Sudan provide a new political dispensation?

Article: 20/4/19: Sudan Tribune – Will uprising in Sudan provide a new political dispensation?, by Dr. Luka Kuol

 Summary:

In the interests of Sudan's path to sustainable democracy, Dr. Luka Kuol of the African Center for Strategic Studies, calls for Sudanese political parties to allow the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) to lead the transition to civilian government, and for foreign states to "be guided by the choice and demand of the [Sudanese people] rather than their narrow political interests.”

 Kuol argues that consensus between the SPA and the political parties on the list of transitional government candidates, and the SPA's leadership of the transition, could avert Sudan's military council appointing a government under its direct supervision, or the former ruling National Congress Party recapturing state power.

 Kuol also notes that Sudanese protesters and the anti-Islamist Arab bloc (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain) share anti-political Islam positions, but argues that “[the anti-Islamist bloc] seem insensitive to the demands of the protesters.”